Sunnysidebeach wrote:
The 28 RLS Keystone Bullet running on the Honda 3000is made life easy, and it felt like we were camping for the week instead of living in the misery of the tropical heat.
I could fill it up at 6pm and then shut it down in the morning just after 6 am.. It would take just about 3 gallons of fuel.. 3 gallons for 12 hours at night is not bad at all. In the day time heat, the Honda would last about 8 or so hours on the same 3 gallons of fuel.
SoundGuy wrote:
So if a EU3000iS ran 24 hrs day that would be 7.5 US gals of fuel, or here in Canada ~ 28.4 litres, which at a current average of ~ $1.35 Cdn per litre would work out to ~ $38 Cdn a day, or $266 Cdn a week just for fuel. :E Obviously if you need power but don't have it there's not much choice other than to run a genset but I wouldn't exactly call that "fuel efficient" considering I can rent a 30 amp electric site in our Ontario provincial park system for about the same and not have to bother with a genset at all. ;)
Atlee wrote:
How would you use an Ontario park, if the Ontario park didn't have electricity for a week?
The OP said his area of Florida was without power due to a storm. I suspect it is rather cheap compared to sitting in the house sweating profusely, with no electricity what so ever.
Also, he was talking about gas prices in Florida last year, not gas prices in Ontario last year.
So what is the point of your post, other than to be argumentative for the sake of it? :h In my own post I merely said I question
Sunnysidebeach's claim that running a genset like the EU3000iS 24/7 for a week is necessarily "efficient". Obviously if you're at home, lose power, and already have a genset on hand and the fuel to run it then you're going to use it BUT in a similar situation when camping this isn't a live or die situation. :R $266 to fuel a genset like this for week while camping without shore power is hardly what I'd call "efficient" when a campsite
with power costs about the same, doesn't require a genset at all nor any fuel to keep it running for such a long duration. As for losing power while camping this seems to happen to us several times each season and to that end I installed a 1000 watt PSW inverter in the trailer so we can continue to camp as we usually do, obviously without A/C. This is
camping, not a life or death situation, just as it was during the
2003 Northeast Blackout that left some without power for up to 2 weeks. We were camping at the time so what did we do? - just kept on camping, with no generator running 24/7 and go figure, we apparently survived. What a miracle. :S
